Testimony of Healing November 25, 1905 Issue

Twice lately I have had a return of an old complaint...

B. Trydell

Twice lately I have had a return of an old complaint, which had recurred at intervals for thirteen years. It usually began with a sense that something had given way in my back, which grew stiffer and stiffer, until I could only use it with difficulty and in some movements with pain, while there was the ever-present suggestion, Take care, or you will strain it more. Before I came into Christian Science, when the strain occurred, I used to be laid up for a week or ten days at a time, and even after it appeared to be more or less cured, I could feel it for a long time. I had to be careful when lifting anything heavy, and wore a broad stiff belt when playing polo. I thought I had got over it completely, as it had not appeared since I was first treated for various diseases by a Christian Scientist three and one half years ago. However, the old complaint appeared some four months ago, when we were getting ready for a journey, so that I did not seem to have the opportunity or indeed inclination to fight the ailment at once, through Christian Science. It accordingly took some days to defeat it entirely, though it did not trouble me much after the first day or so, when my back was stiff and painful. I carried out my plan for the journey, which included four days' ride on horseback.

Again, about six weeks ago, when shooting on the Rifle Range, the same old trouble appeared. As I was in charge of the range I had no opportunity to work against the strain at once, and indeed I remember bending about to see if my back was getting stiff (as of course it did) instead of resolutely denying it. However, when I had finished range practice I worked hard against it, and read our text-book, Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy. I carried out my various duties, and also played golf, but by bedtime my back was stiff and painful, to sense. I could not lie in bed with comfort, and I only moved with pain, but I continued working against it and declaring the truth. I went to sleep, and woke up in the morning very much better and with no pain except when I used the muscle which appeared to be hurt, and in two or three days my back was quite normal and has continued so. I carried on my usual work and played games throughout. I must add that I used no artificial support in the way of belts, no liniments, and no medicine but Mind.

Last July, when traveling by sea between Madras and Rangoon, our little girl had a high fever and was delirious. I treated her as well as I knew how, chiefly by realizing the truth and by repeating the Lord's Prayer, with our Leader's spiritual interpretation, and the scientific statement of being. (Science and Health, pp. 16, 17, and 468.) She fell asleep, but woke up delirious several times during the night. Each time I treated her and she fell asleep again. In the morning she was well, but for a slight feverishness which soon passed off. She had no material medicine. On another occasion, when she complained of a headache and was crying with pain. I took her and tried to realize that God's child could not suffer. She fell asleep in less than five minutes and complained no more when she awoke. I remember then wondering how I ever again could doubt God's love and power.—Major B. Trydell, Burma, India.

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